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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Austrian doom metal project formed in 2023, channeling crushing, slow-tempo heaviness through monolithic riffs. Their commanding name captures the authoritative, imposing character of their doom.
Budapest death metal act formed in 2019, contributing to Hungary's capital city's substantial extreme metal community. Their approach strips death metal to its essential brutality without unnecessary technical embellishment.
Lahti death metal/grindcore project formed in 2023, pairing death metal's guttural weight with grindcore's explosive brevity. Their approach strips both genres to their most essential and violent components.
Spanish black metal project formed in 2024, among the newest entries in the Iberian black metal underground. With a name meaning 'promise' in Polish, the project hints at Eastern European influences alongside its Spanish roots.
Tampa, Florida's Obituary are one of death metal's most foundational bands, having helped establish the genre's identity with their 1989 debut 'Slowly We Rot' and its landmark follow-up 'Cause of Death.' John Tardy's distinctive, guttural vocal style and Trevor Peres's downtuned, Celtic Frost-influenced riffs created a template for the entire Florida death metal scene. Over 35 years and eleven studio albums later, Obituary remain one of death metal's most consistent and revered acts, never once wavering from their crushing, doom-inflected approach.
Uddevalla/Gothenburg death metal/grindcore act active since 2014, with a Swedish name meaning 'mandatory torture.' Their dual-city base in western Sweden gives them access to Gothenburg's legendary extreme metal infrastructure.
Progressive metal band from Gondomar, Portugal, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of progressive metal from the Porto metropolitan area.
A solo endeavor by the artist known as Kaelreth, Oblique Silhouette operates in the overlap between raw black metal, depressive black metal, and ambient, producing everything in a bedroom setting. The project's debut, the three-track EP Through the Hate Forests (December 2022), established a tone of deep melancholy and isolation, followed by a second EP, Grimlands Under the Moon Spectre, that pushed further into atmospheric territory.
Experimental progressive metal and doom/death metal band from Marsa, Malta, with roots dating to 1995 — one of the oldest acts on this list. Three decades of evolution from doom/death origins into experimental progressive territory represent a remarkable career from the small Mediterranean island.
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